Current administration is sorely lacking

Published: Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 03:15 PM.

A letter in a recent Times-News was typical of those who support the current president for re-election. Her assessment is that he is trying to help the middle class and that he has done everything possible to help those in need. If only the mean old Republicans would get out of the way he could take us all the way to Utopia.

It wouldn’t be illogical to assume that this writer might be one of those benefiting from his benevolent, self- serving, unsustainable policies. During his almost four years in the White House President Obama has buried us under a $16,000,000,000,000 debt. Under his “regime” unemployment is at a record high, which means unemployment benefits are high, food stamps are at unprecedented levels, more people than ever now don’t pay income tax, and racial and class tension is higher than any other time in my lifetime. Meanwhile the “regime” continues to stifle American industry like coal and oil production with overregulation. It’s very apparent that he stands with big unions and big government over the rights of individuals.

Although many of us believe that everything that he has done has been wrong for our country, it’s yet to be determined whether it’s his inexperience, inability to grasp the realities of the world, or even worse that he is an anti- American, Muslim sympathizer whose goal it is to destroy our country.

Now, with the worst record of any other president in our history, with our country and the whole world at the brink of disaster, they blame Bush, a filmmaker in Florida, and Republicans for the crisis. The facts are that the Democrats had the White House, Senate, and House for the first two years of his presidency and didn’t even pass a budget. For the last two years they have had the White House and Senate but still don’t have a budget.

If ever we needed a competent person in the White House it’s now. To paraphrase a quote from a movie, “We have taken his measure and have found him wanting.”

DON WARDMebane

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A letter in a recent Times-News was typical of those who support the current president for re-election. Her assessment is that he is trying to help the middle class and that he has done everything possible to help those in need. If only the mean old Republicans would get out of the way he could take us all the way to Utopia.

It wouldn’t be illogical to assume that this writer might be one of those benefiting from his benevolent, self- serving, unsustainable policies. During his almost four years in the White House President Obama has buried us under a $16,000,000,000,000 debt. Under his “regime” unemployment is at a record high, which means unemployment benefits are high, food stamps are at unprecedented levels, more people than ever now don’t pay income tax, and racial and class tension is higher than any other time in my lifetime. Meanwhile the “regime” continues to stifle American industry like coal and oil production with overregulation. It’s very apparent that he stands with big unions and big government over the rights of individuals.

Although many of us believe that everything that he has done has been wrong for our country, it’s yet to be determined whether it’s his inexperience, inability to grasp the realities of the world, or even worse that he is an anti- American, Muslim sympathizer whose goal it is to destroy our country.

Now, with the worst record of any other president in our history, with our country and the whole world at the brink of disaster, they blame Bush, a filmmaker in Florida, and Republicans for the crisis. The facts are that the Democrats had the White House, Senate, and House for the first two years of his presidency and didn’t even pass a budget. For the last two years they have had the White House and Senate but still don’t have a budget.

If ever we needed a competent person in the White House it’s now. To paraphrase a quote from a movie, “We have taken his measure and have found him wanting.”